If You Take a Missionary to Walmart

If you take a missionary to Walmart (or any store with more than three aisles), they’re sure to need plenty of moral support, so don’t let them go off on their own. If you do, you may come upon them curled in the fetal position under a rack of clothes, moaning softly to themselves. Once you’re in the store, take a look at their list. The store has probably (almost certainly) changed in the two+ years they’ve been away, so they won’t be able to find anything. Be prepared for one of two experiences: wanting to grab everything on the list as quickly as possible and get out, or walk through each aisle and look at everything. Everything, folks. (That was me.)

To Town, You Say?

Kainantu-see the little bit of pavement on the right side
of the picture?

About a week and a half ago, I had the opportunity to go to Kainantu with several other ladies to do some shopping. We piled into the old firetruck and headed out bright and early (okay, so 7:30 isn’t really that early…but it was school break!). The roads here in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are very interesting (read: full of potholes), and the dirt road right out the front gate of Ukarumpa is among the worst (at least on the way to Kainantu). You can’t really dodge the potholes because they are EVERYWHERE, so you just look for the part of the road that has the least, or the potholes that look the least likely to eat your vehicle.